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notice. The wood itself is of no value. It realizes nothing, the man who 

 cuts it giving the wood gratis. When the wood reaches Toronto it sells for 

 $5.00 a cord, the $3.00 being consumed in freight and profit to the dealer. 

 The wood difficulty is becoming serious." 



It would be well if those who are selling their wood as above would con- 

 sider this. We should be planting instead of cutting so much down without 

 any replacement. 



BUSHEL BOXES FOR POTATOES. 



K EXT to the potato digger, the greatest labor saver on the farm, in the 

 ^\ \ line of potato culture, is our bushel box. Potatoes can go from 

 the field to the grocer in the city, and then to his customer's cellar 

 on spring wagons and under canvas, so they are fresh and nice as though 

 just dug in the garden. The boxes, of course, are left with the grocer until 

 emptied. When digging, the boxes are scattered through the field. A man 

 can pick up a bushel almost without lifting, if he takes four rows at once. 

 Then two men can empty them into the wagon, as it is driven through the 

 field, very rapidly, or set them in, to go to the cellar. It is a great saving 

 of labor over the common way of picking up in a basket and carrying 

 them to heaps, then picking them up again from the heaps into the wagons. 

 These boxes hold a bushel level full, so they can be set up three or four 

 deep in field, wagon or cellar. We have board covers to put on when it 

 looks like rain, or to keep the sun from injuring the potatoes. If you 

 want to load a car from the field they are just the thing. There are hand 

 holes in the ends, so they are about as easy to carry as a basket. The 

 size is 13 X 13 x 16 inside measurement. — T. B. Terry, before a Farmers' 

 Institute in Wisconsin. 



PACKING PLUMS FOR MARKET. 



THE Plum is perishable, and more care in handling is required than often 

 is given, especially on sorts designed to be sold on tiie retail stands of dis- 

 tant cities. These certainly should be picked with stems adhering and 

 carefully laid in five pound to eight pound baskets ; in all cases picking 

 the small and inferior fruit by itself, to be marketed as second class. And 

 while the varie'ties designed for preserving need not be so carefully packed, 

 equal care should be bestowed in sorting that no imperfect fruit be 

 packed in packages denominated first-class. In doing which you will 

 find some one ready to purchasey our fruit at its fair value, giving you fair 

 compensation for all your labor and care, and you, in conclusion, abun- 

 dantly satisfied that well-grown plums shipped in clean, neat pack- 

 ages, at the proper time and to the proper markets, are a crop not to be 

 despised. — S. D. Willard, Western New York Hort. Society. 



